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Build mobile applications

Use Adobe® Flash® Builder™ 4.5 software to build mobile Flex and ActionScript® applications for leading mobile platforms using a common codebase.

Mobile app development for multiple platforms

Build standalone Flex/ActionScript® applications for one or more mobile platforms (Android™, BlackBerry®, or iOS). Design and Code views support mobile development using mobile-ready components.

Mobile app debugging

Debug and test applications on locally connected mobile devices or a mobile emulator.

Mobile application packaging and signing

Deploy, package, and sign required resources as platform-specific installer files for upload to a mobile application distribution site or store.

Mobile apps for Android, BlackBerry Tablet OS, and iOS

Benefit from new support for mobile application development and testing, enabling the use of a common codebase to build apps for Android™, BlackBerry® Tablet OS, and iOS while sharing code from web applications.

Metadata code completion

Code generation

Use QuickAssist/Fix to rename and manipulate variables, generate getters/setters and event handlers, organize imports, and more. Use the override/implements feature to define methods from a superclass or interface.

Refactoring and ASDoc support

Quickly navigate through code or restructuring by renaming all references to a class, method, or variable thanks to refactoring support. Display comments in MXML and ActionScript editors using ASDoc.

Data-centric development

Introspect Java, PHP, Adobe ColdFusion®, REST, and SOAP services to display methods and properties in the new Data/Service Explorer. Drag and drop to bind methods to user interface components.

Invalid reference live highlighting

See references to invalid variables, methods, classes, and interfaces as you are typing in the code editor, and then use the Quick Assist/Fix features to generate stub code.

Code templates

Use over 100 best-practice code templates (aka snippets) for ActionScript, MXML, and CSS. Review and insert templates using code assist. Create custom templates and import or export them for sharing within teams.

Integrated development and debugging

Develop and debug Flash, Flex, and PHP application components in an integrated development environment.

Design-develop workflow

Speed up development by working in parallel with designers using Adobe Flash Catalyst® software.

Bidirectional designer/developer workflow

Take advantage of new support in Flash Builder 4.5 and Adobe Flash Catalyst® CS5.5 software that enables designers to open, make changes to, and save Flex projects that were either created or previously edited in Flash Builder.

Roundtrip editing in Flash Catalyst

Large project development

Work with large projects more efficiently to speed development.

Design View improvements

Speed up development with Design View enhancements such as rendering improvements for complex projects, auto-collapse of data-binding expressions, warnings for incompatible SWCs, visual feedback for drag/drop operations, and improved performance.

Improved large-application performance

See up to a 65% reduction for refactoring operations on projects with a large number of dependent libraries, a significant reduction in memory used when profiling complex applications, and improved profiler responsiveness.

Expanded platform support

Get the latest platform support in Flash Builder 4.5.

Updated platform support

Take advantage of new platform support for Eclipse™ 3.6 (Helios) and the standard Eclipse for Java™ distribution; the Cocoa version of Eclipse on Mac OS X; and Adobe Flash Player 10.1, Adobe AIR 2.5, and Flex SDK 4.5.

New Spark components

Use powerful new Spark components in Flex SDK 4.5, including the new Spark Datagrid, Form, and Image controls for web/desktop applications.

Desktop Adobe AIR applications

Build, debug, package, and sign AIR applications. Adobe AIR lets you quickly develop rich Internet applications (RIAs) for the desktop with the same skills and codebase you use to build RIAs for the browser.

Rich application design

Lay out and customize expressive user interface behaviors and controls.

Rich visual layout

Visually design and preview user interface layout, appearance, and behavior using a rich library of built-in components. Extend the built-in Flex framework components or create new ones as needed.

Interactive data visualization

Create data dashboards and interactive data analysis by dragging and dropping a chart type and linking it to a data source. Use the powerful Advanced Datagrid to enable users to explore complex data.

Skinning and styling

Customize application appearance using CSS and graphical property editors. Set commonly used properties and preview the results in Design View. Browse themes and apply them to projects with the Theme Browser.

Resources

Page tools

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